Environment & Land Use

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Climate Litigation Charts: February 2016 Update

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts.  If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com. Here are the additions […]

A New Chapter in the Sabin Center’s Handbook, Legal Tools for Climate Adaptation Advocacy: Clean Water Act Permitting and Funding Programs

Channing Jones Columbia Law School Class of ’17 Climate change poses substantial risks to water quality, with many impacts varying geographically. For example, in regions experiencing increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events, climate-related water quality threats may include increased runoff pollution and discharges from combined sewer overflows. In […]

GHG Impacts From Coal Mining: Federal Assessment Critiqued By Sabin Center

Last week marked an important shift in executive policy on fossil fuel leasing: the Interior Department announced a moratorium on new leases for coal mined from federal lands, pending a comprehensive reexamination of the decades-old coal leasing program. Interior will prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) to examine how […]

New Legal Analysis Shows How Untapped Clean Air Act Provision Can Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Michael Burger Executive Director Report from three of the nation’s premier climate law centers concludes that EPA can create economy-wide, market-based program under Clean Air Act section 115 to help achieve Paris Agreement goals efficiently A team of law professors and attorneys at three of the country’s leading centers devoted […]

January 2016 Update to the Litigation Charts

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts.  If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com. Here are the additions […]

Cities Nationwide File Motion to Join Clean Power Plan Litigation

Michael Burger, Executive Director This morning the Sabin Center filed a motion for leave to participate as amici in the Clean Power Plan litigation on behalf of a nationwide local government coalition that includes the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the National League of Cities and the cities of Baltimore, MD; […]